21st Century

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremismAt the height of the John Birch Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, "Birchers" believed that a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465093502Author Tom HollandFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 916gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm * 51mm

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Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors?In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naive dealings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443958Author Steven JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060536619Author Wayne BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 316gDimensions(mm)...

"Magnificent.... A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation." - Los Angeles TimesThe long overdue story of the Shakurs, persistent fighters in the U.S. struggle for racial justice, and one of the most prominent, influential and fiercely creative...

When the first edition of this book appeared in 2003, it was chosen as a Main Selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club and quickly became the standard work on the modern American presidency - from William McKinley through...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmerica is suffering from PTSD. The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps begin the healing process.For four years, Donald J Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected traumas upon the American...

'Remarkably powerful.' Washington Post'A compelling polemic, dismaying and often moving.' Jake Kerridge, Daily TelegraphNo issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate around guns. Paul Auster begins his examination of gun violence by looking into...

In the last decade Black Americans have gone from exhilaration and hope with the election of Barack Obama to the malaise and fear of the Trump presidency. Both Administrations serve as tacit examples of the gains and regressions of minorities. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978094Author Anthony SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 723gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

An informed and practical road map for controlling disinformation, embracing free speech, saving American elections, and protecting democracy "Hasen puts forth a number of solid recommendations on how to combat disinformation."-Richard Stengel, New York...

In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess,...

In The Case for Trump, acclaimed historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a...

With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs. They occupied the margins of society,...

'Rich and rewarding' Wall Street JournalIt is impossible to understand the last 75 years of British and American history without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, and specifically the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR of...

The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575337Author Eddie S. GlaudeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

"American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is." - Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in AmericaIn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512485Author Alex BerensonFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future.In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the United...

'A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washington's fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate today.' New York Times At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily,...

A concise primer to the political, cultural, and social consequences of the perpetual US global war on terror. An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of...

Study of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasn't fought. The reality, of course, is that many "hot" conflicts did occur, some with the great powers' weapons and approval, others without. It is this reality, and this period of quasi-war...

A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the Pacific Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender that formally ended the war in...

Published to coincide with the 60th anniversay of Britain's first successful thermonuclear bomb testing in the Pacific, H-Bombs and Hula Girls tells the tale of ten young men brought together through National Service in the Royal Navy and taking part in...

An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiences In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in the...

The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. 'A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385531108Author Mike BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Larry Nassar has been called one of the worst sexual predators in history. For years, the families in Lansing, Michigan admired and trusted him. He was a longtime doctor at Michigan State University, while also serving as the physician for the U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982115340Author Matt StollerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

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Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter-not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982172480Author Jonathan MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633916425Author William HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

All Available Boats is the story in artifacts and oral histories of the 300,000 New Yorkers who were evacuated from Manhattan on 9/11...by boat. It is a story that has not yet been written about or told. It includes hundreds of oral histories and many...

America is in crisis. In the space of a generation, it has become more than ever a country of winners and losers, as industries have failed, institutions have disappeared and the country's focus has shifted to idolise celebrity and wealth. George Packer...

A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, in chronological order-he figured he'd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812976502Author Jed HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Times BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374g